On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Marshall, Joshua wrote:
> I'm wanting to back up the Mail directories of all the users on my
> server, and leave all their other files for a separate backup. Can I do
> this with tar? And what would the flags be?
>
> The Maildirs are kept in their home directories, along with all their
> working files, so I want to be able to have a backup which stores:
> User1/
> Maildir/
> cur/
> new/
> tmp/
> User2/
> Maildir/
> cur/
> new/
> tmp/
It's scripty-time again, kids!
cd /home
tar cf mailbackups.tar
find . -name Maildir | xargs tar rf mailbackups.tar
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